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3 Questions: Honing robot perception and mapping

Luca Carlone and Jonathan How of MIT LIDS discuss how future robots might perceive and interact with their environment.

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Defining the public interest in new technologies

New online journal seeks to seeks to bring together the MIT community to discuss the social responsibilities of individuals who design, implement, and evaluate technologies.

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A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.

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Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks

MIT researchers exhibit a new advancement in autonomous drone navigation, using brain-inspired liquid neural networks that excel in out-of-distribution scenarios.

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A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains

“DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.

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Novelty In The Game Of Go Provides Bright Insights For AI And Autonomous Vehicles 

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider   We already expect that humans to exhibit flashes of brilliance. It might not happen all the time, but the act itself is welcomed and not altogether disturbing when it occurs.    What about when Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to display an act of novelty? Any such instance is bound to get our attention; […]

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Pursuit of Autonomous Cars May Pose Risk of AI Tapping Forbidden Knowledge

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider     Are there things that we must not know?    This is an age-old question. Some assert that there is the potential for knowledge that ought to not be known. In other words, there are ideas, concepts, or mental formulations that should we become aware of that knowledge it could be […]

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Nighttime Driving and AI Autonomous Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Are you a nighttime driver? Some people like to drive at night and enjoy pretending they are in their Batmobile and seeking to fight crime. There are some people that reluctantly drive at night — they drive at night because they need to get home from work or […]

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Canarying and AI Autonomous Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The coal miner looked furtively at the cage holding a canary. There was a chance that in this new part of the mine, there could be seeping carbon monoxide gas. Carbon monoxide is colorless and odorless, and other miners had died by being caught unawares that they were […]

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Coopetition and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Competitors usually fight tooth and nail for every inch of ground they can gain over the other. It’s a dog eat dog world and if you can gain an advantage over your competition, so the better you shall be. If you can even somehow drive your competition out […]